Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) December 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Next, why?
WATCH: U.S. forces seize oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela
— BNO News (@bnonews.com) December 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Hey if you were wondering whether Hegseth's soldiers are willing to obey illegal orders, let's ask the ones who were last seen scurrying down ropes onto the deck of a Venezuelan oil tanker like contemptible Somali pirates, jonesing to steal some oil as part of a unilateral and unprovoked act of war
— Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) December 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if the oil tanker hijack is actually a Hegseth "warrior culture" boast, to prove to Trump that his boy Pete is down with the program and can flex his muscles at South America with the best of them.People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
— Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) December 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Here's a fascinating video, which I found very useful because I don't know much about the history or politics of Central and South America:
Saw this video on Al Jazeera and it provides a Big Picture of geopolitics in Central/South America and historical context for the US’ latest actions as a reaction to China and hegemony in the region. Note: Al Jazeera is based in another petrol state but most of the report is on point.
— userno935262428.bsky.social (@userno935262428.bsky.social) November 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
That would be nuts, of course, and the world has had it with Amerika's craziness:m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uze6...
— userno935262428.bsky.social (@userno935262428.bsky.social) November 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Now Trump thinks he can tell the International Criminal Court what to do, just like he orders around the US Supreme Court. I don't think so Donny...Good. Some countries still are guided by a moral compass; unlike ours. Honduras Issues Arrest Warrant for Ex-President Pardoned by Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
— 🇨🇦marciebp🇲🇽 (@marciebp.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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I suspect the whole situation is getting much too complicated for Trump to understand. Increasingly, Trump sounds like an old man shouting at clouds.NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)
— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) December 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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And how demented is Trump anyway?
just incredible optics here, the president yelling at you about how you should buy less and like it, three weeks before christmas, while standing in front of a bunch of stupefied moronic dipshits holding BIGGER PAYCHECKS signs
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) December 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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I think Trump has gone crazy and he's taken the Republican Party with him: Rubio has lost it too:
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Trump and Rubio and the Republican Party aren't the only delusional Americans these days.
Journalist Matt Gurney attended the recent Halifax International Security Forum and there was lots of discussion about Trump's Amerika with the Americans who attended. He recounts two chilling anecdotes that illustrate how Americans still don't understand what they have done:“America’s former role is gone. And I think that Americans themselves are having the hardest time of all coming to terms with what that might actually mean in the long run.” Via Matt Gurney www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...
— Alexander Quon (@alexanderquon.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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...The session, over dinner, was a small group. It was about America’s moral leadership in the world. Our moderator was a now-former American official. She was pretty frank and clear-eyed about how America’s allies currently view the country’s place in the world, but also expressed some hope that after the midterms next year or maybe the next presidential election, things would start to get more back to normal. We were assured that a lot of people in America are still with us. Some of the other Americans present nodded their heads.
And, like, gosh. Boy. I confess to readers that due to extenuating circumstances, my reserves of both patience and charm are largely exhausted at present. I informed the moderator, probably more bluntly than I might have normally, that that wasn’t going to happen. The damage is already done. I know firsthand that a great many Americans who really do believe in the post-1945 global order, and of America’s prior role in the world and the value of that role to America and Americans, are still inside the U.S. government. But I also know that many of them are retiring, or seeking early retirement, or switching to consulting gigs. They can’t stomach what U.S. foreign policy is becoming, and they won’t be a part of it.
Good for them. But every single person who departs is being replaced by someone who is totally fine with the new U.S. foreign policy. And sometimes is actually quite enthusiastic about it. That will accelerate the process that’s already underway. And those new people are going to have long careers, shaping things both in public and behind the scenes. And the damage to America’s soft power — the shutting down of aid programs and things like Voice of America — can’t be undone rapidly no matter who wins the midterms. U.S. troops that are pulled out of bases where the U.S. no longer sees a strategic reason for their presence aren’t likely to come back.
And, this is the critical part, wouldn’t necessarily be welcomed even if they did....
....[later in that discussion] a senior military officer from a major (non-American) allied nation drove a stake right through the heart of the matter.
America has blown 80 years of accumulated goodwill and trust among its allies, our American moderator was told. A rock-steady assumption of allied defence and security planning for literally generations has been that America would act in its own interests, sure, but that those interests would be rational, and would still generally value the institutions that America itself worked so hard to build after the Second World War. America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.
The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.
Because “we will never fucking trust you again.”
The Americans at the table seemed somewhat startled by the heat of that pronouncement. I agreed with it entirely. So, it seemed to me, did most of the non-Americans.
This wasn’t the only such moment at the forum this year, but it was, to me, the most interesting. And it was still being talked about the next day. “Thank God,” one allied official said to me. “Someone had to tell them.”
If there’s one thing I think people should take from my visit to Halifax, it’s that. America’s former role is gone. And I think that Americans themselves are having the hardest time of all coming to terms with what that might actually mean in the long run....
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